Is your job_queue_processes > 0? DBSNMP uses AQ as well. Michael Dinh Disparity Breaks Automation (DBA) Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong - Peter T Mcintyre Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people - Eleanor Roosevelt When any rule or formula becomes a substitute for thought rather than an aid to thinking, it is dangerous and should be discarded -Thomas William Phelps -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joel.Patterson@xxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 10:20 AM To: oratune@xxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: (oracle q000) Streams AQ: waiting for time management or cleanup tasks fall out. I'm not using data pump at the moment, especially when first starting the database. I could at any time if that is what you mean by having data pump configured. I do not believe I have Streams configured either. Joel Patterson Database Administrator 904 727-2546 From: David Fitzjarrell [mailto:oratune@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 10:14 AM To: Patterson, Joel; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: (oracle q000) Streams AQ: waiting for time management or cleanup tasks fall out. If you have Data Pump configured then you're using AQ. Remember that AQ is reading from and possibly writing to a queue table and if you also have Streams configured and running the I/O could get heavy. David Fitzjarrell From: "Joel.Patterson@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:Joel.Patterson@xxxxxxxxxxx>" <Joel.Patterson@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:Joel.Patterson@xxxxxxxxxxx>> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 6:54 AM Subject: (oracle q000) Streams AQ: waiting for time management or cleanup tasks fall out. When first starting a database I get very high USER IO: I used db optimizer to see what stands out. user 'Unknown', is shown to be consuming IO - it is connected to Non-SQL Activity with an SQL_ID of 0, and a SQL_ID which is connected to the Advanced queuing wait event in the subject line. I am unsure how this wait event or session is connected to the IO. Has anyone come across this before? Don't use AQ purposely in this DB or others. Joel Patterson Database Administrator 904 727-2546 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l